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THE CHINAMMA

SATURDAY.” OCTOBER”

1956

GILES

"Bus strike or no bus strike I'll get the next lot that take a quick dat across my garden to the station."

Tendon Reprus Cervice

Would your watch have kept time on the sea-bed?

WEARING

.

Rolex Oyster Perpetual, a professor of Milan University went for a swim off Capt But the strap buckle was loose, and his watch broke from his wrist, and sank to the bonem. Without much hope, the pročesiar inked soine divers, working nearby, to keeja an eye open for his windli Surprisingly, seven days later, they actually found it, and it may still keeping perfher time.

It is not really so incredible. For this superb watch, completely proced from water and sind by

the famous Oyster waterproof case, is automatically wound by the Perpetual “trator"" michanisma- another Rolex invention.

fe is in their ability to stay sccurate under such incredibjo form of endurance that Rolex watcheó í prove their immunity from the more normal ills that beset an ordinary watch

THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES-NO. 7

FROM PRISON TO PARLIAMENT

N

By BILL

TU calling offers mean oxample of the eyes- to riches Comato than the Noble Art no figlifer

of Self-Defence,

ever won greater fame and fortune with othing but

his hard fists and his honest heart to help him than John Cully, who rose from pauper to Member of Parliament,

Bristol, 150 years ago,

was the most romantic go- ahead city in England,

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town of tall ships set in the green West Country, a slow-talking town farmers mixed with

rovers.

where

sen-

came the

McGOWRAN

A contemporary portrait of the man who fought in a prison yard and rose to

richas.

From: Bristol line of brawny game-cocks who stridled the Prize- Ring like giants, headed by the incomparable Jim Bel- A friend in the West Country eber and the heroie Hen wrote to tell him of the Bristol the Pearce who were, to seek a butcher boy's trouble, so

big-hearted Game Chicken, modern parallel, the Len though he didn't know Cully Harvey and the Jack Peter- from Adam, promptly went sen of their day.

And it was Bristol which also produced John Gully.

Gully was n

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butcher's with ambitions, and he lived to Hoo the greatest of them realised,

Marshalsea.

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interference al Hailshamn, ben tween Brighton and Lewes, October 5, 1805. An Immense crowd covered the Downs and all the swells of Brighton turned

Including the Duke Clarence who was destined become Willer the Fourth.

up.

of

to

It was terrife fight won by Pearce in the 84th round when Gully "after: greats, persuasion, yielded the pain aften a contest of one-hour and 17 minutes.

Defeat had its compensation, however. His great losing battle, and the Game Chicken's tribute, warned instant fame for Gully. Poor Pearce had only four more years to live, and when illness cause his untimely retirement

from the ring less than a year after their fight Gully was looked upon by conиnon consent

his successor.

TO-

'The Gama Chicken" and John Gully.

icle of the Prize Ring, odclude success story of strange John Gully.

the

the

ho

daughters, moving in the best circles of sociéty.”

but

His most enduring momument Is to be found not in the records "After a few years

of the ring or the musty pages retired and became

of Parliamentary history chaser of Ware Park, Hartford- in Rust's Guide to the Turt

Here ho

10 associated with shire.

where, in the list of horsČR which have won the Derby, you will find:

the

1840. Mr Gully's Pyrrhus the First.

the first circles of the country; fortune smiling on him, he He proved a worthy champion became a spirited breeder und by twice benting the Lancashire racehorse proprietor, an owner giant, Bob Gregson, before of collieries, and lastly, I In 1832,

1054. Mr Gully's Andover, of Uring to invest his ring carnings

attained attained proud position

Yes, Lucky Gully won the in that form investment one of England's senators, being Derby twice. Not bad going for

of. this day, is ,still a

returried to Parliament as favourite with fighter in their presentative for Pontefract in the butcher's boy who fought the first reformed Parliament for his freedom. In the prison Mr. Gully died at Durham on yard.

Next Monday, March 9, 1889 in the 80th year of his age... leaving

to which,

He led the look of Gully and had the gloves on with him. Although the champion knocked The The butcher's boy all over place, is one might expect, he

John Gully, the Butcher's boy with ambitions, reached squire- dom by way of the prize-ring - and

won the Derby twice

the Derby, that he would make

'a fortune

god that e

wter Parlament

then, enter

ho

reurement.

Yes, John Gully took an inn and settled down as a publican... but not for long, Let the author of "Pugilistica,

o ancient three-volume chron-

To-

Wednesday: The

a family of five sons and five Mystory of the Mary Celeste.

Third Year Of Mau Mau War

Starts With Grim Warnings

From Brian Parkes

Nairobi, whom he was a blood

farms and ranches which

He swore to himself that some เฟรม

impressed that TO tiny he would become Champion promptly used, his not incon- of England, that he would win iderable influence on his behalf. the He persuader' three of would most distinguished patrons of

and the ring to take part in a Mitc ENYA'S third year of brother. His voice shaking, cannot be defended,

plat on Gully's

Kthe War, as he said it grieved him pey, believe the terrorists are There Mr Berkeley was three swells Peakly

grim deeply to do that but he had to committed that none of their. Craven, Major Mellish and Mr begun with three Fielcher Rell-drove with the warnings to the, colony's to so that similar tragedies leaders can persuade them into He started his Httle business Game Chicken to Marshalsen in 42,000 European folk, would be prevented. ? in Bath, but things went

coach and with goldenlangesse uit 30 3

he did all those things.

But fifa Arst ambition

much, more modest. He merely

wnated hir own butcher's shop.

Fan

up with him and young alightly Marshalsen.,

There he might have, stayed for the rest of his R life had it not been for the seen enough. generosity of the Game Chiviten. pay off Gully's debts at once on

M

mkús surrender,

Fighting the 7,000 strong ter rorist mring orò more than 40,000 African and European troops cond police and Kikuyu loyalists.

War's Cost

badly, that be found himself at persiaded the turnkey to allow They are: "Do not relax. The second was Kenya's the age of 22 owing some £300 them to stage a ativate boxing Do not trust the Kikuyu Governor St Evelyn and not the slightest prospect of contest in the prison, paying it off. So young Gully, Here the inexperienced brawn Do not think, Mau Maule Baring, who leads the four for the first and last time lo bis life, played the coward and

of Gully (6 feet tall, 14 stone over it is not, hot by a man anti-Man: “Man-war council. He said: “We are away to London. Itis creditors in weight), was matched against long way? FEDE

going to destroy Man Mau,, the dollshed skill of the inore

built champion. (5ft, The interse advice was, and a good deal of progress they have killed nearly 7000

7lb.). AneT. teh

three men well is being made. But there mandrits and captured mother given by *te Carinthians had They agreed to

****** | known throughout Kenya,; will be bad incilenta. 20,000 in two yetra.

People have to go on taking And they have put 40,000 First Victim the grestest possible care active Mai Mau supporters In more care than they have detention camps. Blone than But Mr Fluichier Reid hack

done.".

half were arrested in Nairobi, not

secured

Gully's release

First, Dr Louis Leakey, merely to promote a Davich-and-

Kenők's own gwole hold' 17,000' the No. 1 authority on the No. 1 The third man to wirwas the Mma Mala convict Peared, the Gamo Jonathan -affair. between /

poise, and the champion Cully Mau Mau tribe and, cousin donger was the C-in-C. Gener

al at the Chicken" he of the terrorists first, white Bir Gects shaking, who scritti The cost of this wat in tho

and his word was law

POPULATARKA, forrible 20-Ring circles 100 year kidnap victim. There is still attack on Leakeys ar 610 which the wat

Hon

Chicken, was the noblest char geler over produced by the Prize-

Rjog

o in the sa peare or ħla häntant

one condition-that he took up The Prize-Ring as his profession,

Monk Pearce, did many anecday, July 20, 1805) at Protyrobt

has the match was shade ng trace of 68-year-old CaterAnděl Gra Leakey,

Blespite a ske4 magistrates the Mount affair. In those

was inegar His wif

In strangled, by

KUMUOR will mount to £2- "000,000 by the, wid, of the

After seven days beneath the sea, a Rolex Oyster Perpetual, brought up by divers, was found to be will showing the-right thilat (The original letter of Profiner Cutolo nei be inspected of the Rolex offices, y8 eur du Mirche, Giniva.}

This Rolex Oyuer Perpetual it Similar to the one in the story. Permanently waterproof in in Öyster Cait, it is Agiven parfeci accuracy by the Perpetual selfinding forer." The Ralix RedStal mtratifier avery Refex chronometer."

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